Includes a preliminary application form for Civilian Conservation Corps selection, a certificate of selection for the CCC, and a memoir written by Harold P. Leland of his time in the CCC in North Dakota and Arkansas.

Several men stand inside a steamshovel with the word Marion on it operating at the Whittier-Crockett Coal Company near Columbus, N.D. The shovel works on a large coal pile at right. Horses hitched to wagons haul larger pieces of coal.

The diary is composed of 37 sheets of copy paper and documents Kellogg's time reporting on the Big Horn-Yellowstone Expedition of 1876 when he accompanied George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry during the events that ultimately led to the...